<p>Congrats on your friend! </p>
<p>That's a really low score...what country are you from?</p>
<p>
[quote]
SAT: Math: 800 CR: 440 Wr: 480
[/quote]
lol..that's pretty awesome! MIT>UIUC anywways :P</p>
<p>ooh and...some IMO medalist got waitlisted? wow</p>
<p>Did she by chance take the TOEFL? If so, her SAT reading/writing scores wouldn't have been considered.</p>
<p>ACCCEPTED!!1</p>
<p>Stats:
[ *]SAT: CR720 M710 W670
[ *]SAT II: M2: 770, Chem: 770
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA: 3.95
[ *]Rank: 3/70
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5s in APUSH, AP Chem, and AP Comp Sci A</p>
<p>[ <em>]Essays: One was about how my father passing away from cancer made me want to do medical research
[ ]Teacher Recs: One was great, one was generic.
[ *]Counselor Rec: Should have been amazing, I am the first person from my school since the 80s to even apply to top 10 schools.
[ *]Supplementary Material: MITES recommendations
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I taught myself all three AP tests above and got 5s on them (since my school sucks and only has 2 AP classes), I also went to MITES and did well
[ *]Location: Middle of Nowhere, OH
[ *]High School Type: Small, Poor, and *</em>*ty!
[ *]Ethnicity: White!
[ *]Gender Male!
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid:YUS!
[ *]Extracurriculars: I have been in drama since 8th grade, had the lead senior year. NHS president and started a school wide recycling program. I play clarinet in band. I went to MITES last summer, and did an internship at a hospital the summer before.
[ *]Awards: National Merit Commended Student and a bunch of small school awards and stuff.
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:If I didn't feel like bragging, why would I be making this post?</p>
<p>What is UIUC</p>
<p>University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign</p>
<p>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
<a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.uiuc.edu/</a></p>
<p>Ridiculously renowned engineering program for a state school. Very pretty campus.</p>
<p>D'oh! Cross-posting!</p>
<p>From what I have heard, her IBT score is around 100..
I just checked, she got IOI bronze medal in 11th grade and IOI Silver medal in 12th grade. </p>
<p>I think I shouldn't tell the country I am from or else it would be very easy to find out who she is.</p>
<p>^isnt that already enough info if we are really nosy?</p>
<p>StevenJPenny: How did you get into MITES if you're not a minority?</p>
<p>^
There are a couple of whites and asians in MITES every year.</p>
<p>I'm poor, come from a small rural school in which <50% of the student go to 4 year colleges (and which has NEVER sent anyone to a top 10 school), and I'm adopted.</p>
<p>That would do it.</p>
<p>My daughter got some great news yesterday after the depressing non-admit letter from MIT...accepted at Stevens with a full tuition merit scholarship. Hopefully everyone that was not admitted at MIT finds similar acceptance (and money!) at other great schools. Still waiting to hear from Cooper Union, CMU, and Columbia, but it's tough to turn down a full ride.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>This is my friend's not myself!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:1560/1600
[</em>]GPA: 3.99/4.00, 4.8 W
[<em>]Rank: 4/494
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): In AMC he always gets above 100. 5 on all AP
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Teacher Recs: probably godlike, he's the man!
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Super nice kid [/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: VA
[</em>]High School Type: Public with Magnet
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: not a lot, but the one he is in he is the president.
[<em>]Awards: Every single science award possible, going to ISEF this May!
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I play soccer with him, he is so cool. He got deferred, I am glad MIT saw through their mistake and finally accepted this great kid.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted
Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: M800, R760, W750 (2310)
* SAT IIs: Math 2C 800, Bio E 750, US History 740, Math 1C 740
* ACT: n/a
* GPA: 3.87 UW, 4.6 W
* Rank: n/a
* Other stats:
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: One about music, one about sports
* Teacher Recs: Calculus and English
* Counselor Rec: Yes
* Hook (if any): No
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: MA
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: M
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:[list][<em>] Extracurriculars: Envirothon, Science Olympiad, JSA, Math Team, Chinese Yo-yo[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: [*] Other thoughts: Congrats to those accepted</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 400M 400R 800W
* SAT II: Math2c - 500, Phys - 500
* ACT: 10
* GPA: 3.5- 3.6 (weighted)
* Rank: 67 / 100
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10 - 78, AMC12 - 52.5
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: Best quality, I'm the writer :/
* Teacher Recs: Faked, best
* Counselor Rec: Faked, best
* Supplementary Material: Goge drawings
* Interview: Meh, killed the person
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I won Nobel Prize in my home.
</code></pre>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: India
* High School Type: Mental Institute of Technology. I think top 2 in nation or something.
* Ethnicity: Asian >_<
* Gender: M
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: Math Club, ARML, Research, Religious Activities
* Awards: Nobel Prize
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I am the best, why did not they accept me?
</code></pre>
<p>Oh, gogela, you make me chuckle. Faking recs and killing interviewers that **** you off does tend to work, dunno why it didn't in your case.</p>
<p>Not Admitted</p>
<p>Stats:
[ *]SAT: CR620 M630 W610
[ *]SAT II: M2: 720, Chem:710, Physics: 740
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA: NA
[ *]Rank: school doesn't rank but top 20.
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): British curriculum student: IGCSE O levels all A's, 'A' in A level Math, four A levels in progress, Physics, Chemistry, Geography & Further Math; predicted all A's.</p>
<p>[ *]Essays: good, short was about learning languages, long was written by 'the future me' looking back.<br>
[ *]Teacher Recs: One was good, one was generic.
[ *]Counselor Rec: Quite good.
[ *]Supplementary Material:
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[ *]Location: Nairobi, Kenya
[ *]High School Type: Private, British curriculum
[ *]Ethnicity: Asian
[ *]Gender Male.
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid:yes
[ *]Extracurriculars: I have been in drama since 7th grade, had the lead many twice & one best actor award, stage manager, backstage, drama competitions;writer, director, actor best actor award.Model United Nations six years; Ambassador thrice, junior chair, senior chair of security council and ICJ, best resolution award. Deputy head boy, 12th grade student council rep, yearbook editor, school paper writer. Presidents award Gold standard . Lots and lots of community service (I live in an LEDC)
[ *]Awards: School awards for drama theory, geography, IGCSE International certificate of education with distinction, regional german verse speaking winner
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I feel...dejected yet stoic</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[<em>]SAT: Math 730 Reading 660 Writing 690
[</em>]SAT II: Math IIC 720 Biology E 720 US History 700
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW 6.367W
[<em>]Rank: 2/550
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) APUSH 4 Calculus AB 5 Biology 5 English Language 5
[/list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[<em>]Essays: i thought that they were really sincere and touching, about how my trainable mentally handicapped classmates inspire me
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good, i think? didn't read them
[<em>]Counselor Rec: awesome :)
[</em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
[<em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
expanded a local reading tutoring program to my home elementary school (started the new chapter from scratch-3rd yr of operation), Best Buddies President, job coach for 2yrs, UF SSTP one summer, yr-long extensive research abstract about work at Bascom palmer, won 1st place in regional science fair, going to ISEF, 1st generation american, national achievement scholar
[</em>]Location:Florida
[<em>]High School Type:Public Magnet
[</em>]Ethnicity:Black
[<em>]Gender: Female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no)[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list] Yes, but $0
[<em>]Extracurriculars:see "Hook", swim team one yr, science national honor society co-president
[</em>]Awards: National Achievement scholar, 1st place regional science fair (12th), various school awards (best chem, english student)
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]</p>